Affiliations: [a] Cornell University, NY, USA | [b] Shanghai University of Finance and Economics,
China | [c] US Census Bureau, USA
Correspondence:
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Corresponding author: Jeff Larrimore, Department
of Economics, 408 Uris Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA. Tel.: +1
610 715 7704; Fax: +1 607 255 2818; E-mail:
jhl42@cornell.edu
Abstract: Using the internal March CPS, we create and in this paper distribute to the
larger research community a cell mean series that provides the mean of all
income values above the topcode for any income source of any individual in the
public use March CPS that has been topcoded since 1976. We also describe our
construction of this series. When we use this series together with the public
use March CPS, we closely match the yearly mean income levels and income
inequalities of the US population found using the internal March CPS data.
Keywords: Inequality, income, earnings, Current Population Survey, Gini coefficient, topcoding, and cell means
